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Andy Rooney Quotes

«I'd like to be rich enough so I could throw soap away after the letters are worn off»
«Don't pin much hope on the mail, and when the phone rings don't expect anyone wonderful to be calling»
«We should change our attitude toward the United Nations. There has to be some power in the world superior to our own. We should not have attacked Iraq without the okay of the United Nations. Now we have to live with that mistake. We're living with it, and too many of our guys are dying with it.»
«Taxes are important. President Bush's tax proposals leave no rich person behind. Voters approve of President Bush helping the kind of people they wish they were one of.»
«The closing of a door can bring blessed privacy and comfort - the opening, terror. Conversely, the closing of a door can be a sad and final thing - the opening a wonderfully joyous moment.»
«Death is a distant rumor to the young.»
«We've sent a man to the moon, and that's 29,000 miles away. The center of the Earth is only 4,000 miles away. You could drive that in a week, but for some reason nobody's ever done it.»
«When those waiters ask me if I want some fresh ground pepper, I ask if they have any aged pepper.»
«Elephants and grandchildren never forget.»
«It's not so much that I write well, I just don't write badly very often, and that passes for good on television.»

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